SUPREME COURT
HAMILTON SESSIONS. Hamilton, Nov 24. . In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice Herdman committed Robert Clifford Findon to the Boratal Institution for three years’ detention on seven charges of attempting to cause wilful damage to property, in. eluding three of attempted arson. It was stated that the accused’s mental development had been retarded. On three charges of forging receipts at Te Awamutu Thomas Sefton was admitted to two years’ probation. A case of unusual interest, and with which was connected important features, was commenced, when William Harold Melville Taylor, who was formerlv arrested on a charge of theft of a mailbag, appeared on two charges of receiving cheques lost in a postal packet contained in the missing hag. Taylor was not charged by the Crown with the theft of the mailbag, as on consideration of the evidence adduced, it had been decided that it Was insufficient to warrant a case being submitted to the jury. The case is proceeding. On a charge of the'theft of cattle, a Maori. Waaka Matenga, was found not guilty.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 24 November 1927, Page 9
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176SUPREME COURT Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 24 November 1927, Page 9
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